Nancy C. Andreasen

Nancy C. Andreasen is the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the former editor in chief of The American Journal of Psychiatry. In 2000, she was awarded the President’s National Medal of Science for pioneering the use of brain imaging to study cognitive processes and mental illness.

A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness.